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CORR
2002
Springer
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13 years 11 months ago
GridBank: A Grid Accounting Services Architecture (GASA) for Distributed Systems Sharing and Integration
Computational Grids are emerging as a new infrastructure for Internet-based parallel and distributed computing. They enable the sharing, exchange, discovery, and aggregation of re...
Alexander Barmouta, Rajkumar Buyya
SIGECOM
2010
ACM
183views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2010»
14 years 4 months ago
The unavailable candidate model: a decision-theoretic view of social choice
One of the fundamental problems in the theory of social choice is aggregating the rankings of a set of agents (or voters) into a consensus ranking. Rank aggregation has found appl...
Tyler Lu, Craig Boutilier
ATAL
2006
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Failures of the VCG mechanism in combinatorial auctions and exchanges
The VCG mechanism is the canonical method for motivating bidders in combinatorial auctions and exchanges to bid truthfully. We study two related problems concerning the VCG mechan...
Vincent Conitzer, Tuomas Sandholm
ATAL
2008
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
GS3 and Tartanian: game theory-based heads-up limit and no-limit Texas Hold'em poker-playing programs
We demonstrate two game theory-based programs for headsup limit and no-limit Texas Hold'em poker. The first player, GS3, is designed for playing limit Texas Hold'em, in ...
Andrew Gilpin, Tuomas Sandholm, Troels Bjerre S&os...
ATAL
2010
Springer
14 years 8 days ago
Scalable mechanism design for the procurement of services with uncertain durations
In this paper, we study a service procurement problem with uncertainty as to whether service providers are capable of completing a given task within a specified deadline. This typ...
Enrico Gerding, Sebastian Stein, Kate Larson, Alex...